Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 6

JULY 13, 1D22. THURSDAY EVENING OsilanD Cxikuut rl -t MLAiWS STEADY CLUE 10 CITY 'OF SKY (sf OLLAilS ii WW FIB mm permits Combination oil Oakland's New' Skyline Skyscrapers and other large tlructures that will soon "tell the world' that Oakland is now a metropolis of the first rank. Top row, left to right: Oakland TRIBUNE building, Oakland Bank building. Pacific Gas Electric building. Lower row: Left, Medical Arts building; right upper, Athens Athletic Club, Fox theater.

g- 8 Blocb Woud Look Like This FOB SPSMEIITS' SYSTEM SllVS $3,381,045 IN JUNE, PUS GROWTH Ul IIU1IU Total'of 2367 New Connec SUPPOSE the cUty largest of ths many building's now under construction or projected in Oakland's downtown business section were made into one building having the average smonnt of grsnnd pstehera whaOkwoul1' like: It would constitute a skyscraper of 8J storlei. ll would rie into the air ait-Uncs of 1382 feet, or sbout ljusrter of mils. It would bs ths tallest building la tha world by a margain of 32 stories. Four Huge Structures to' Form City's Skyline; Many More Blocks and Houses Swell Total Housing Problem Solved, Ey Erection of Many Notable Buildings. tiona Made in First Six Months of Year.

(Continued from page 1). Curing the first sit months of minus of three gfeatrtrans-contl this year a total Of 2JT new tele' phones have been installed In the ft' 4 Eastbay eltles. according to an announcement ma.de today by th ing will be completed by July 1 of next year. Less than a stone's throw from the site of the proposed new TRIBUNE building, the eighteen-story skyscraper of the Oakland Bank is 'now under construction. This building, which Is being erected at a cost of approximately $760,000, will be 286 feet in hclcrht.

Pacific Telephone Telegraph 1 i company. This work, which together With new construction and additional equipment made necessary by the til 'dUUhiM A million dollars for apartment houses! This is the large seals on which Oakland is dealing with her housing problem In oonnectlon With. hr phenomenal development along other lines. This sort of progress ig shownby the large list of apartment Houses completed. In the, course of construction or contemplated for erection in the near future.

7 What has been described as on of the finest apartment houses on; the coast in 'point of construction, appointments and location is th Regillus, built' by P. Palmer at Nineteenth and Jackson streets. Its view of Lake Merritt and ths hills surrounding Oakland and 8er s- on. -1 installations, represents an expen and will form a third important rtitnm of anoroximatelr 150,000, element in Oakland's new sky scraper skyline. and is an accurate indication of the rapid growth of this vicinity In The, building will contain a basement and a 6ub-basement, and.

aside from the space which will be RINGING APPEAL WRINGS MONEY; MAN ARRESTED Accused of relieving generous-hearter citizens of about and mors a day, Roy Steward is now In the city Jail, charged with vagrancy. 11 According to a report by the arresting officers, Steward had a "property" letter which he showed setting forth that he suffered from lung trouble and wanted to reach a better climate. Tha letter, it is said, was well written and contained a ringing appeal for tha sufferer. It is alleged that th ringing appeal wrung good money from sym- used by the banking institution. n'Vi will be devoted to offices.

keleyy make it on especially, at tracive place. Its cost IS' In th neighborhood of $600,000. populaton and business, j. v. Holmes, district manager of ths eompany, said.

The demand for new telephones has been unusually heavy, and the company has been obliged to reinforce most of its main distributing cables and many of its central offices, said the tnan- "Not only- have plant extensions (been carried on at a rapid rate, but the work now in hand and What is proposed is much larger than at any other period in the company's Holmes stated of MANY FINK STRICT UU. The Eellevue Court apartments on Bellevue avenue furnish in. 1 if 'git? other example of fine typ of apart ment house that is being erected in Oakland. It was built by Nalr The building will contain a set of three self-lovellng elevatprs of a new type which has not, yet been used went of the Mississippi. I'KOCTOR BUILDING' Oakland's fourth skyscraper wj) be the ssvcDte-erp-storyrifflce build-ing to1 be -erected at Seventeenth street and Telegraph avenue bv Frank Proctor, Senator Arthur 1L Bre.1 and Norman Ie Vaux, announced re cently.

This building, which it is estimated will cost iq the Belgh-borhood of a ml. an. dollars, will be ereceted on a site recently purchased by Proctor for $500,000. Its r.ponsors assert that it will be an all-steel' building of the most bett" and a rough estimate places the cost in the neighborhood el $100,000. The Hilsonia at.

80t-S and I Lakeshore avenue, built by HUson. Is another high class apartment house recently completed. It is tiental railroads. Already the new Oakland Sank tiuildlng ia rising by one floor aiter another into the new IS -story structure that It is eventually to be. Atf ew yards away from Its northeastern corner is the spot of ground that will mark "the southwestern" cornier of the huge new TRIBUNE building, announced within the past few flays, and upon which construction is soon to start.

A few blocks north1 is the site of the seventeen-story building whose contemplated construction was recently announced by' Frank H. Proctor.1 WILt, APPEAR OP 6AM0EHEIGHT FROM BAY. Seen frOra the bay, three hew Skyscrapers will appear- to rise to approximately' the' same height as the eity hall. The 'letter edifice has an altitude, above the sidewalk of 343 The TRIBUNE tower will rise to a. height of S27 feet, within sixteen feet of that of the eity hall, while.

the crest of the! new Oakland Bank" building Vill attain 288 feet, or only about "J4 feet less than that 'of The TRIBUNE. Together the; proposed Proctor building, when it is com-pleted, these structures will compos a skyline that will reVeal Oakland at a glance as great commercial nnd industrial city. From Inside the however, Us Jrestige will be even more apparent On the block where now tangy low building of the Southern Paclflo station at. Fourteenth and Franklin streets together with the pen space around the tracks, there will rise the Bjiiestory'w the huge edifice that will in "future bouse both the Athens Athletic club And the Southern Pacific station. A few blocks -up Franklin street the downtown skyline will again be pierced by the upper stories of the ine-floor Medical Arts building, toon to be built at the corner of Xineteenth and Franklin etreets.

Around the corner, On Broadway, fcetweep Eighteenth and Nineteenth will appear the artistic fa-Cade of the new million-dollar Fox theater, one of the largest and most modern motion picture theater Structures to be found on the coast. $7,500,000 PROGRAM ssid to cost in the neighborhood of $75,000. The Collins apartments at 740 Walker avenue, were built within the past few months by E. Collins. The cost is declared to be about $50,000 There are 18 apartments in the Collins' structure.

Another fine apartment house on Walker avenue is the Shenstone. list i built by W. K. Nottingham. It 1 said to have oost approximately NUMEROUS PROJECTS.

A mong the high, elasa aoartment f. -rr houses now in court cf construction A 1 IS one being built by Alexander at Lake and Oak streets. The Kats Brothers. prominent Oakland Jewelers, are also erecting a largd apartment house, and ground has 1 ill oeen orojten by J. T.

Royston for what will prove an unusually fin structure, it is said. Another Is being built by Magruder on Jackson street and it is estimated that the cost Willie about $70,000. It is rumored that plans will soon be under way for a large apartment. house on Nineteenth street. These are only few of the Many fine apartment house buildings that have been cdmpleted In th past six months, are nownunder course of construction, or are to built in the near future.

There ar many smaller apartment buildings being erected for the earn nuroose. VJt 513) TT JDOWNTOWN AREA. 1 1 These are the principal buildings In a downtown construction pro 11 j'1 1 mm mm gram, which, it is conservatively stlmated, will involve the expendi m. I KIEL. 1 'll' il, IE? i "JFr 7S- L-idB Afic dfc St ri 4- -a i '4, Post from ty Funeral Arranged For Capt.

Myron Cox Funeral services for Captain Myron St. Clair Cox will be held tomorrow at 2 p. i. from th resi-dence of his daughter, Mrs. Frank M.

Greenwbod, 249 Monteclto ave nue, the "auspices Of 'Lvon -Post No. 8. Grand Army of ths Republic, and Lyon Relief Corps Cox was a veteran of tha Civil war with a long service reo- ord to. his credit. He is survived by a widow, Mr.

Alice B. Cox, his Mrs. Greenwood; a son, Arthur P. Cox and a Paul Rieger. Ha- was the stepfather of Mrs.

J. M. Hartsook, Walter E. Williams and' J. Harry Williams.

He was born in Ohio. 1 pathetic persons and Steward was doing very nicely whgn arrested. Steward resisted arrest, claiming he was in Emeryville and not Oaltland. Th arresting officers produced a map and demoon-strated his mistake, after which he accepted the arrest. "I trust that Steward will go to another climate oon," says Chief of Police James T.

Drew. "In fact, I hope to make the climate of Oakland entirely too warm for such persons." WILD WED FRIDAY. IRVINOTON, July 13. The marriage of Marion E. Van Devoort of thla city and Edgar L.

Dow Jr. of Alameda will take place Friday. I pry ii mmm wwr sri'' Ktiff 3 ture of more than $7,500,000. And they will give Oakland the appearance suitable to the fact of her being' one of the-leading eities of the West. A couple of blocks west, at Seventeenth street and San Pablo avenue, there wilj be1 added to Oakland's downtown skyline the seven-story edifice that is to house the Pacific Gas Electric company.

And at Sixteenth and Broadway ywill be the remodeled six-story home erf the new Commercial Savings and Trust company. Altogisther, these huge new structures will within the year to come, five to photographs' of Oakland's present skyline the same ancient look as that which now attaches to the old pictures showing the former wooden city hall end the old frame buildings at Fourteenth street and Ban avenue. New Skyscrapers to Be Artistic Giants rThe Oakland TRIBUNE skyscraper, to be erected along side the publishing company's present taulldlng at Thirteenth and Franklin streets, will rise to a height off nineteen stories and occupy a stte 40 by 100 feet. The building will, be a class A Structure, jvith steel frame, covered with Concrete faced with specially designed pressed brick, similar to tha present TRIBUNE building. Construction will begin on August 1.

and it is expected that the build Your DM Pirno-A New Player tjs J-w "-nniijj KIW 'M; 'i-tvi ff "frr Tin iu i'iVIt Tht oldpiamo that has oeen so long silent taay now be changed into a new and modern Player, bringing, back all, and more, of ft If 2 lk the beautiful tt Wm tl music that used to fill your home. i 13 jt and most nifignlf Icent theaters of modern oonstruction and artistic 11 s'T its kind on the Pacific Const. The new building of the Com-meroitl Savings and Trust company. EUREKA 1 I t-4 desisn. X'lans for the proposed coniblnn-tion six-story Athens Athletic club and Southern Pacific building nt Thirteenth nntl 1' Tunklln street include Xiatures which will make of which is one of Oakland's now banking institutions, will comprise Plx stories remodelled, from the present building ot the.

Athens Hotel on Broadway near Sixteenth. Tle lease alone on this building involves half a million dollars, covering a 20-year period. i Irish Parliament th larger construction projects Vacuum Cleaner BeBt Construe tion; Longest Life; Small lain- tcnance Cost; Easy and Convenient to Operate; which the company has plahne Delayed By Strife will take care of the rapidly grow BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE rourteen Die Whea Roof of Mosque Falls ing Lakeshore Section and will provide facilities for telephones in all of the newly-opened tracts now being' advertised and placed on th For a moderate cost we convert any-modern upright into an ultra-modern eightyeignt-note fjlayer that will, give never ending satisfaction and pleasure. Built by the famous House off we have no Hesitation placing our guar antee upon by the month, it you wish. Full particulars if send this ad.

LEASED WIBE TO TKIBUKE. DUBLIN, July 13. The recently selected Irish parliament was today prorogued for fourteen days In VI it a model of organiaztion htiuo-tures. An Immense lobby through wrneh Southern l'aclflo trains will run, stores with street's and lobby entrances, special facilities for offices of large companies Peking extensive floor areas, are some, of Its outstanding features. The new Pacific Gas A Electric company building at Sixteenth and San Pablo will be s'etfeh stories In heltrht, and will cost $318,000, according to officials of the The plans are said to provide for oti of the most complete public service buildings on the Pacific coast.

The building will be Class fireproof throughout, with granite base and (walls of colored terra cotta. Th new Medical Arts building which is to be built at Nineteenth and Franklin etreets to provide increased office space for physicians, surgeons, dentists and members of allied professions, will compris nlna-JStoriesand wlllcost in the neighborhood of Bfllf' aT'nilinoii dollars. Dr. Robert Dunn, an Oak market. "To care for thisrapldly grow.

Indictments Charging Murder Are Quashed BY IFNITED PRESS. LEASED WIRE TO TRIBUNE. WILLIAMSON, -W. July 13. -Indictments against twenty members of ths United Mino Workesr of America charging them with murder and arson in connection with Mingo county mln riots U'o years ago, wer quashed today, Prosecutor 8.

D. Btoke an-nounced. Stokes declined to give 111 state's reason for dismissing ths cases. Murder charges against C. F.

order to enable members who are fichtinir in 4he Irish Free State army to continue with the colors. ing section a new 1200 pair cabl will be placed from the- Oakland office to Lakeshore avenue and Mandana boulevard. From this noint a new 00-nair cable. With Eamonn de Valcra again has dropped out of sight and it was rumored that he was dead, but this CAIRO, July the Asso-ciatedv Press.) Fourteen pe soni wer killed and twenty others keriously injured through the fall of the roof of the Abu Elela Mosque during the celebration of the fcost of tho Patron Saint today. Great damage wai done the antiquities in the sacred etructure.

i i various subsidiary cables, will Namt rumor Is not credited'by any of the placed to all congested sections. This latter clnstructiOn will Free State officers. Addn CSS nlaced on Jointly occupied poles, (Trlb.) thereby eliminating duplicate poles DUBLIN, July the As- Jacnxr.ssiden$.l,Frei,MponcyAi sodaTedTeS.CJ Michael" Collins Winner of All the World's -Grand Prize the Enreka before youlbtty and youTl have" no after regrets. Buy from the Exclusive Vacuum Cleaner Store Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Shop has been appointed commandcr-ln land dentist, is th owner of the chief of the Irish national army, It uranuivi, a ii juu cuuci, s- retary, of District No. of the U.

M. Stokes said, were among those quashed. Dronertv. was officially announced, today MASON HAMLIN PIAKOS Stranded Steamers Are Both Floated SEATTLE, July 13. Both the Steam Schooners Willamette and Northland, which want ashore yesterday morning In a heavy fog In as far as possible.

A large amount displaced by these cables, and in this connection it is felt that the service conditions will be much improved." WOMAN, 64, HANGS SELF SALEM, July 18. Mrs. Ho. bart Howard, 64,. wife Of th manager of th Juno Draks.Farra.

near Bllverton, committed stiicld by hanging herself from a rafter in a barn. It was reported to th aoroaarIrJjoward Jiadbeen In ,111 health. Collins, Richard Mulcahy nnd Gen-eral Owen O'Duffy Will comprise a war council In supreme charge of military operations throughout the country. BT WNItrD press. 1209 WASHINGTON OAKLAND 135-55 Kearny 217-25 Sutter San Francisco Other Stores: Fresno.

San Diego, Sacrament-' San Jose, Lot Angeles, Portland, Ore. FOX THEATER BUILDING. The Fox Theater building, which Is at present under construction on' Broadway between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets. wiU cost approximately $1,000,00 when finished, and will provide seating capacity 2 5 55 persons. Devoted exclusivelytd mbllofl 'pttmrwfuwT occupying a site 150 by 150 feet in it will be one of the largest minor clashes with insurgents throughout Ireland, according to word reaching her.

One rebel was killed and 12 captured when Free Btaters attacked insurgents Puget Sound, were floated late yes -2220 Broadway- i.BAairnimBE. to TBTPTrNr DUBLIN, July 13. lice in terdar browght-ji, wltaa-a terdar broMgh-Mr-lje drydock Inspection will be made, phone Oak. 8437 Oakland 'killed and several wounded. troops wer victorious todsy I 1.